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Curriculum Vitae
Elizabeth M. Brannon, Ph.D.
Contact information
Address: Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Duke University
Box 90999, B203 LSRC Building
Durham, NC 27708-0999
Telephone: (919) 668-6201
Fax: (919)-681-0815
Email: [email protected]
Website brannonlab.org
Personal Data Date of Birth January, 16, 1971
Place of Birth Ann Arbor, MI
Citizenship USA
Education
Ph.D., Columbia University, Psychology, 2000
Advisor, Dr. Herbert S. Terrace
Thesis Title “Ordinal numerical representations in rhesus monkeys”
Ph.D. awarded with distinction
M.A., Columbia University, Psychology, 1996
Advisor, Dr. Herbert S. Terrace
M.A., Columbia University, Biological Anthropology, 1994
Advisor, Dr. Marina Cords
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, Biological Anthropology, 1992
Thesis advisor, Dr. Dorothy Cheney
summa cum laude with distinction in the major
Positions Held
Full Professor, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of Psychology and Neuroscience,
Duke University, 2012 (Primary Appointment)
Associate Professor, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of Psychology and
Neuroscience, Duke University, 2008-2011
Associate Professor, Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, 2008-present (Secondary
Appointment)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill. 2002-present (Secondary Appointment)
Assistant Professor, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of Psychology and
Neuroscience, Duke University, 2001-2008
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Assistant Research Professor, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of Psychology:
Experimental, Duke University, 2000-2001
Honors and Awards
Nominated for Psychonomic Society Governing Board, 2014
James McDonnell Scholar Award, 2008-2014
Early Investigator Award, Society for Experimental Psychology (SEP), 2008
Thomas Langford Lectureship Award, Duke University, 2008
NSF CAREER Award (2005-2010)
John Merck Scholar (2003-2007)
Ph.D. awarded with distinction, 2000
Presidential Teaching Award, Columbia University, 1997
summa cum laude with distinction in the major, 1992
Phi Beta Kappa, elected 5/12/93
University Scholar of the University of Pennsylvania, 1989-1992
Research Grants and Fellowships
Pending funding
2015-2018 NIH R21 MH107040-01
Elizabeth M. Brannon & Michael L Platt (multi PI)
“Effects of Learning and rTMS on the Neural Code for Number”
The main goal of this research proposal is to explore the role of expertise on
changing the neural code for number.
2014-2017 NIH U01-NS090516
“Computing decisions with a brainet”
Nicolelis (PI)
The main goal of this research proposal is to implement multiple Brainet designs
aimed at exploring how networks of primate brains can interact in order to reach
decision in sensorimotor and cognitive tasks.
Current funding
2014-2019 RO1 HD079106-01
“Improving Math Ability via Primitive Number Sense Training”
Elizabeth M. Brannon (PI)
The main goals of this research proposal are to explore the cognitive and neural
relationship between approximate arithmetic and symbolic arithmetic in adults and
children using training paradigms and fMRI.
2010-2015 National Science Foundation Research Grant, 0951690
“Relationship between early and later developing numerical abilities”
Elizabeth M. Brannon (PI). $699,966
2008-2014 James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award.
Elizabeth M. Brannon (PI). $600,000
2013-2014 BASS teaching team, Duke, Brannon and Hahn $16,800
Math before Symbols: Games to Increase School Readiness in Pre-Schoolers: This
team will work with pre-school and early elementary school children to test the
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effectiveness of an iPad-based game in readying children¹s math skills, and a subset
of the team might aim to produce a pre-K children¹s book based on these insights
about how children learn math before symbols.
2013-2014 Initiative on Education and Human Development, Duke, $25,000
Completed funding
2010-2012 RO1 HD059108-06A2 (1 year RO1 renewal & no cost extension)
“Representation of number in infancy”
Elizabeth M. Brannon (PI). $289,500
2008-2013 NICHD RO1HD057173-01
“Functional and neuroimaging of the development of neural mechanisms for
number processing”
Kevin Pelphrey (PI), EMB (Co-PI)
2009-2013 NEI 1R01EY01
“Contributions of Areas LIP and VIP to Numerical Behavior. ”
Michael L Platt (PI), EMB (Co-I)
2010-2011 NICHD RO1 HD-049912-05S1 (ARRA supplement)
“Representation of number in primates”
Elizabeth M. Brannon (PI). $59,661
2005-2011 NICHD RO1HD049912-01A2
“Representation of number in primates”
Elizabeth M. Brannon (PI) $969,871
2005-2011 NSF CAREER award
“CAREER: Evolution and development of numeracy”
Elizabeth M. Brannon (PI). $400,000
2009-2011 NIH1RC1 MH088680-01
“From Phenotype to Mechanism: Mapping the Pathways Underlying Risky Choice”
Scott Huettel (PI), EMB (Co-I)
2010-2011 NSF workshop conference award
“Space, Time and Number: The Cerebral Basis of Mathematical Intuitions”
Elizabeth M. Brannon (PI). Direct $32,717
2010-2011 NICHD R13 workshop conference award
“Space, Time and Number: The Cerebral Basis of Mathematical Intuitions”
Elizabeth M. Brannon (PI). Direct $9,000
2003-2008 NIMH RO1MH066154-01
“Representation of number in infancy”
Elizabeth M. Brannon (PI). Direct $600,000
2003-2007 John MERCK Scholars Fellowship,
“The evolution and ontogeny of mathematical abilities human infants represent
number.”
Elizabeth M. Brannon (PI). Direct $150,000
2002-2006 NSF ROLE and Developmental and Learning Sciences
“The Representation of Number in Infancy”
Elizabeth M. Brannon (PI).
2001-2003 RO3 MH64955-01
“Electrophysiological correlates of numerical discrimination in human infants”
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Elizabeth M. Brannon (PI), G.R. Mangun (Co-PI)
2001-2002 B/START MH63075-01 NIMH
“Knowledge of numerical relationships in infants”
Elizabeth M. Brannon (PI)
2000 Arts and Science Research Council, Duke University
1998-2000 National Research Service Award, NIMH
1993-1996 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
1992 University Scholar Research Grant
External Service & Professional Experience
2011- Associate Editor, Developmental Science
2010-2014 Regular Panel member NIH Cognition and Perception Study Section
2010- Executive committee member for The International Society for the Study of
Attention & Performance
2010- Treasurer of The International Society for the Study of Attention & Performance
2010- Associate Editor Frontiers in Comparative Psychology
2010- Editorial Board Frontiers in Developmental Psychology
2009-2012 Advisory board Current Directions in Psychological Science
2009- Editorial Board Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes
2004- Editorial Board Cognition
2008-2010 Editorial Board Infancy
2003-2010 Editorial Board Psychological Science
AdHoc reviews: Animal Cognition, Animal Learning and Behavior, Behavior and Philosophy,
Behavioral Processes, Cerebral Cortex, Cognitive Brain Research, Child Development, Cognitive
Psychology, Current Biology, Developmental Neuropsychology, Developmental Psychology,
Developmental Science, European Journal of Psychology of Education, Infancy, Journal of
Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Comparative Psychology, Journal of Experimental
Psychology; General, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Journal of Experimental
Psychology; Animal Behavior Processes, Nature, Nature Neuroscience Reviews, Nature Reports,
Neuron, Neuropsychologia, PLOS: Biology, , PLOS ONE, Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, Psychonomic Bulletin and
Review, Science, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Trends in Neuroscience.
AdHoc grant reviews:
National Science Foundation Panel, Research on Learning and Education 2001
National Science Foundation ad hoc reviewer 2001-2010
National Institute for Health, ad hoc reviewer BBBP1 2002, 2003
National Science Foundation Panel, Center for Science of Learning, 2003
National Institute for Child Health and Development, special member, 2004
National Institute for Child Health and Development, special member, 2005
NIMH, Cognition and Perception Study Section, special member, February 2006
National Institute for Child Health and Development, ad hoc reviewer, March 2006
NIMH, Fellowship review panel, July 2006
National Science Foundation Developmental and Learning Sciences panel, May 2007
National Institute for Child Health and Development, Special Emphasis panel, April 2008
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Conferences and Symposia Organized
2014 Beyond Academia: DIBS workshop, October, 30th, 2014
2010 International Attention and Performance meeting in Paris, France, on Space Time and
Number: Co-organizer with Dr. Stanislas Dehaene
2007 National Science Foundation Workshop on Neuroscience and Mathematics
Co-Chair with Dr. John Anderson
2009 Comparative Cognition Society Symposium in honor of Dr. Herb Terrace 2009
Invited Symposia talks and Colloquia
2015
4th Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences to be held March,
2015 in Chile
Rutgers, New Brunswick, Fetzschrift for C.R. Gallistel & Rochel Gelman
2014
Invited Speaker Emory University, workshop, March 2014
Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, May, 2014
Origins of Intelligence workshop, Sapporo Japan, July 2014
Special invited lecture Japanese Animal behavior meeting, Inuyama, Japan, July 2014
Colloquium, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, July 2014
MIT invited colloquium, October, 2014, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Rethinking the innateness hypothesis, Rutgers, October 2014
Invited Speaker, Society for Language Development, Boston, November 2014
2013
University Scholar Seminar, Duke, November 22nd
Morris Symposium: Quantification and Number, Stony Brook September 2013
Colloquium, INSERM, Paris June 2013
Colloquium, Lisbon Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, July 10th
Cognitive Science Colloquium, University of Maryland, May 2nd
NIH conference on Math Cognition Conference, May 20th-21st
Keynote speaker for Femmes, Middle school girls science day, Durham NC
2012
2nd Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences to be held during
March 5-16, 2012 in Patagonia, Argentina
Psychology colloquium, Washington University, March 26th
Psychology colloquium, Princeton University, September 21st
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2011
Developmental Brownbag, UNC, Chapel Hill
Workshop on Evolution of Human Cognition, Georgetown University
Psychology Department Colloquium, Harvard University
Ben Gurion University, Israel April 2011, declined
National Institute for Child Development Math Consortium Meeting, May 16-17, 2011
Second Annual Aspen Brain Forum titled, “Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning with
Implications for Education,” New York Academy of Sciences and the Aspen Brain Forum
Foundation, Aspen, Colorado September 22-24, 2011
Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, November, 2011
2010
Invited presidential colloquium, International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS)
March 2010
Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Workshop on Development, Spring 2010
Conference on Space, Time, and Number, Paris, 2010
American Scientist Pizza Lunch, September 21st, 2010
Developmental BrownBag UNCG, Dec 3rd 2010
2009
American Academy of Advancement of Science, Invited Symposium on Comparative
Cognition: The Science of Mental Evolution
Comparative Cognition Society, Organizer of symposium to honor H.S. Terrace
Invited colloquia at University of British Columbia, interdisciplinary speaker series, Arts
and Science, Neuroscience, & Med School
2008
Society for Experimental Psychology: Young Investigator Award Speaker
Invited symposium speaker, International Primatological Society, Edinburgh
2007
Symposium on Brain Mechanisms of Sequential Behavior, Society for Neuroscience, The
neural and behavioral underpinnings of numerical ordering San Diego CA, October 2007
Cognitive Neuroscience Society symposium: Numerical Understanding in the Brain:
Comparative, Developmental, and Neural Perspectives, New York May 2007
National Science Foundation conference on Neuroscience and Learning, invited speaker,
May 2007
Invited Colloquium, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of
Pennsylvania, March 2007
2006
National Institutes of Health Behavioral and Social Science Research Lecture Series, Nov
20, 2006
American Psychological Association, invited symposium, August 10-13, 2006, in New
Orleans
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Invited meeting Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI), The
New Cognitive Sciences, June 2006 Vienna; Organizers Lynn Nadel & Mary Peterson
Invited colloquium, Department of Psychology, Stanford, April 2006
Invited colloquium, Department of Psychology, Northwestern, March 2006
Invited Developmental Brown Bag, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago,
March 2006
2005
Invited colloquium, Department of Psychology, Columbia, December 2005
Invited Presidential Symposium Cognitive Development Society October 2005
Invited symposia Yale conference on objects and infancy, May 2005
Invited colloquium, Department of Psychology, Yale, March 2005
Invited address, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, March 2005
2003-2004
Cognitive Neuroscience Summer Institute, Dartmouth NH June 2004
Invited colloquium, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Fall 2003.
Invited meeting Fyssen Foundation, “From monkey to human brain” Paris, France June
2003
Presidential symposium Eastern Psychological Association, 2003, “Numerical thinking: A
comparative study”
Invited meeting, OECD. Brockton, MA. January 2003
2001-2002
Invited Developmental Brown Bag, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia,
November 2002.
Invited Developmental Brown Bag, Social and Health Sciences Dept., Duke University,
September, 2002.
Invited Colloquium Max Planck, Leipzig, May 2002.
Invited Colloquium Max Planck, Tuebingen, May 2002.
Invited Colloquium, Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, December 2001.
Job talk, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill April, 2001
Invited BEAST, Department of Anthropology, Duke University, April 2001.
2000
Department of Neurobiology, Faculty guest speaker at weekend retreat, Duke University
Medical Center, October 2000.
Cortex Club, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Fall 2000
Commentator for Exploring the Mind Symposium, Duke University, February 2000.
Invited colloquium, Nathan Kline Institute, NYC, February, 2000.
1997-1999
Dissertation seminar, “Ordinal numerical abilities in rhesus monkeys,” Department of
Psychology, Columbia University, 1999.
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St. Ann’s High School, Brooklyn, NY, “Science and education,” Fall 1999
Lunch-box seminar (job talk); Department of Psychology, Duke University, January, 1999.
Department of Psychology, Columbia University, “Chunking in humans and animals”
1998.
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, “Ordinal numerical knowledge in
rhesus monkeys,” April, 1997.
Publications
Books & Special issues
Brannon, E.M. (Ed.) 2010. Thought without language: A tribute to the contributions of
H.S. Terrace. Behavioral Processes, 82(2), 137-138.
Dehaene, S., & Brannon, E.M. (Ed.s) Space, Time, and Number in the Brain: searching
for the foundations of mathematical thought. Elsevier, 2011.
Dehaene, S., & Brannon, E.M. 2010. Space, time, and number: A Kantian
research program. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(12), 517-519.
Purves, D., Brannon, E., Cabeza, R., Huettel, S., LaBar, K., Platt, M., Woldorff, M.
(2007). Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience. Sunderland, Massachusetts: Sinauer
Associates.
In preparation
Cordes, S., & Brannon, E. M. Infants see sets differently than adults: Average size
computations at 7 months. In preparation
DeWind, N.K., Brannon, E. M., Platt, M.L. monkey physiology paper, In preparation
DeWind, N.K., Brannon, E. M., symbol feedback, In preparation
Drucker, C., Monkeys attend to ratio of ratios
Drucker, C. lemur serial reaction time
Jones, S. Brannon, E. M., multiplication
Li, R., Brannon, E. M., Huettel, S., Ambiguity aversion is absent in 8-year-old children
Paulsen, D.J., Platt, M.L., Huettel, S.A., &. Brannon, E.M., Feedback learning and risk, In
preparation
Park, J. Bermudez, V., Brannon, E.M., preschool
Park, J. Woldorff, M., Brannon, E.M., Experience-Dependent Hemispheric Specialization
of Letters and Numbers changes over development
Pinhas, M. Paulsen, D. Woldorff, M., & Brannon, E.M., In preparation
Merritt, D.J., & Brannon, E.M., Monkeys do not generalize a rule learned with discrete
quantities to continuous quantities, In preparation
Starr, A., & Brannon, E. M. contour length
Starr, A., & Brannon, E. M. ratio infancy
Starr, A., & Brannon, E. M. A role for visuospatial working memory in mediating the
interaction between space and time
Starr, A., & Brannon, E. M. Number and time are equally salient for 7-month-old infants
Submitted or under revision
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Cantlon, J., & Brannon, E. M. Subtraction in monkeys, under revision at Psychological
Science
DeWind, N.K., G.K. Adams, Platt, M.L. Brannon, E. M., Modeling the approximate
number system; Quantifying the contribution of visual stimulus features, Under revision
Cognition
Park J. Dewind, N., Woldorff, M., & Brannon, E. M., Rapid and direct encoding of
numerosity in the visual stream, Submitted to Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Starr, A., & Brannon, E. M. Shared and separable representations of magnitude, Under
revision for JECP
2014 and in Press
Brannon, E.M., & Park, J. Navigator Chapter for: Phylogeny and Ontogeny
of Mathematical and Numerical understanding, In Handbook on Mathematical Cognition,
Ed.s R.Cohen-Kadosh
Drucker, C., & Brannon, E. M. (2014). Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) map number
onto space, Cognition, 132(1), 57-67. PMCID: PMC4031030.
Libertus, M., Starr, A., Williamson, T., & Brannon, E.M. (2014). Number trumps area for
7-month-old infants, Developmental Psychology, 50(1), 108-112. PMCID: PMC3796133.
Park, J., & Brannon, E. M. (2014). Improving arithmetic performance with number sense
training: An investigation of underlying mechanism, Cognition, 133(1), 188-200.
NIHMSID: NIHMS614955.
Park, J., Chiang, C., Brannon, E.M., & Woldorff, M. (2014). Experience-Dependent
Hemispheric Specialization of Letters and Numbers is Revealed in Early Visual
Processing, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Pinhas, M., Woldorff, M., & Brannon, E.M. (2014). Electrophysiological evidence for the
involvement of the approximate number system in preschoolers’ processing of spoken
number words, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(9), 1891-1904. NIHMSID: 621122.
Starr, A., & Brannon, E. M. Evolutionary and Developmental Continuities in Numerical
Cognition, In Ed.s Geary, D, Berch, D.
2013
Jones, S. M., Pearson, J., DeWind, N., Paulsen, D., Tenekedjieva, A., & Brannon, E.M.
(2013). Lemurs and macaques show similar numerical sensitivity. Animal Cognition, 17(3),
503-15. PMCID: PMC3966981.
Merritt, D.J., & Brannon, E.M. (2013). Nothing to it: Precursors to a zero concept in
preschool children. Behavioural Processes, 93, 91-97. PMCID: PMC 3582820.
Park, J., Li, R., & Brannon, E.M., (2013). Neural connectivity patterns underlying
symbolic number processing indicate mathematical achievement in children.
Developmental Science, 17(2), 187-202. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12114.
Park, J., & Brannon, E.M. (2013). Training the approximate number system improves
math proficiency, Psychological Science, 24(10), 2013-1019. PMCID: PMC3797151.
Starr, A. Libertus, M.E., & Brannon, E.M. (2013). Number sense in infancy predicts
mathematical abilities in childhood. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
110(45), 18116-18120. PMCID: PMC3831472.
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Starr, A., Libertus, M.E., & Brannon, E.M. (2013). Infants show ratio dependent
discrimination regardless of set size, Infancy, 18(6), 1-15. PMCID: PMC3864890.
2012
DeWind, N.K., & Brannon, E.M. (2012). Malleability of the approximate number system:
effects of feedback and training. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6(68). PMCID:
PMC3329901.
Jones, S.M., & Brannon, E.M. (2012). Prosimian primates show ratio dependence in
spontaneous quantity discriminations. Frontiers in Comparative Psychology, 3(550).
PMCID: PMC3572878.
MacLean, E.L., Mandalaywala, T.M., & Brannon, E.M. (2012). Variance-sensitive choice
in lemurs: constancy trumps quantity, Animal Cognition, 15(1), 15-25. PMCID:
PMC3645319.
Merritt, D., DeWind, N., & Brannon, E.M. (2012). Comparative cognition of number
representation, In Handbook of Comparative Cognition. Editors, T. Zentall and E.
Wasserman. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Paulsen, D.J., Carter, R.M., Platt, M.L., Huettel, S.A., & Brannon, E.M. (2012).
Neurocognitive development of risk aversion from early childhood to adulthood. Frontiers
in Human Neuroscience, 5(178). PMCID: PMC3250075.
Roitman, J.D., Brannon, E.M., & Platt, M.L. (2012). Representation of numerosity in
posterior parietal cortex. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 6(25). PMCID:
PMC3364489.
2011
MacLean, E.L., Matthews, L.J., Hare, B. Nunn, C.L., Anderson, R.C., Aureli, F. Brannon,
E.M., Call, J., Drea, C.M., Emery, N.J., Haun, D.B.M., Herrmann, E., Jacobs, L.F., Platt,
M.L., Rosati, A.G., Sandel, A., Schroepfer, K.K., Seed, A.M., Tan, J., van Schaik, C.P.,
Wobber, V., (2011). How Does Cognition Evolve?: Phylogenetic Comparative
Psychology, Animal Cognition, 15(2), 223-238. PMCID: PMC3980718.
Brannon, E.M., & Merritt, D. (2011). Evolutionary foundations of the Approximate
Number System. In Space, Time, and Number in the Brain: Searching for the Foundations
of Mathematical Thought. Dehaene, S., & Brannon, E.M. (Eds.). New York, NY: Elsevier.
Cantlon, J. F., & Brannon, E. M. (2011). Animal Arithmetic. Encyclopedia of Animal
Behavior. Editors, Breed, M.D., & Moore, J. Oxford: Elsevier.
Cantlon, J.F. Davis, S.W., Libertus, M.E. Kahane, J. Brannon, E.M. Pelphrey, K.A.
(2011). Inter-Parietal White Matter Development Predicts Numerical Performance in
Young Children, Learning and Individual Differences, 21(6), 672-680. PMCID:
PMC3240671.
Cordes, S., & Brannon, E.M. (2011). Attending to one of many: When infants are
surprisingly poor at discriminating an item’s size, Frontiers in Psychology, 2(65). PMCID:
PMC3110486.
Merritt, D. MacLean, E. Crawford, J.C. Brannon, E. M. (2011). Numerical rule-learning
in ring-tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta). Frontiers in Comparative Psychology, 2(23), 1-9.
PMCID: PMC3113194.
Libertus, M.E., Brannon, E.M., Woldorff, M. (2011). Parallels in stimulus-
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driven oscillatory brain responses to numerosity changes in 7-month-old infants and adults,
Developmental Neuropsychology, 36(6), 651-667. PMCID: PMC3638794.
Paulsen, D.J., Platt, M.L., Huettel, S.A., &. Brannon, E.M., (2011). Decision-making
under risk in children, adolescents, and young adults. Frontiers in Developmental
Psychology, 2(72). PMCID: PMC3110498.
2010
Brannon, E.M. (2010). Introduction to Thought without language: A tribute to the
contributions of H.S. Terrace. Behavioral Processes, 82(2), 137-138.
Brannon, E.M., Jordan, K.E., & Jones, S. (2010). Behavioral Signatures of Numerical
Discrimination. Primate Neuroethology. Platt, M.L., & Ghazanfar, A. (Eds.). Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Cantlon, J. F., Safford, K.E., & Brannon, E.M. (2010). Spontaneous Analog Number
Representations in 3-year-old Children. Developmental Science, 13(2), 289–297. PMCID:
PMC2819667.
Dehaene, S., & Brannon, E.M. (2010). Space, Time, and Number: A Kantian Research
Program. Special Issue on Space, Time, and Number, Trends in Cognitive
Sciences, 14(12), 517-519. DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.09.009.
Jones, M.S., Merritt, D., Cantlon, J., & Brannon, E.M. (2010). Context affects the
numerical semantic congruity effect in rhesus monkeys. Behavioral Processes, 83(2), 191-
196. PMCID: PMC3677752.
Libertus, M., & Brannon, E. (2010). Stable individual differences in number
discrimination in infancy. Developmental Science, 13(6), 900-906. PMCID: PMC2966022.
Merritt, D., Casasanto, D., Brannon, E.M. (2010). Do monkeys think in metaphors?
Representations of space and time in monkeys and humans, Cognition, 117(2), 191-202.
PMCID: PMC2952654.
Paulsen, D., Woldorff, M., & Brannon, E.M. (2010). Individual differences in nonverbal
number discrimination correlate with event-related potentials and measures of probabilistic
reasoning. Neuropsychologia, 48(13), 3687–3695. PMCID: PMC2975800.
Pearson, J., Roitman, J.D. Brannon, E.M. Platt, M.L., & Raghavachari, S. (2010). A
physiologically-inspired model of numerical classification based on graded stimulus
coding. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 4(1). PMCID: PMC2814553.
2009
Brannon, E.M, & Cantlon, J. F. (2009). A comparative perspective on the origin of
numerical thinking. In Cognitive Biology: Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives
on Mind, Brain, and Behavior. Luca Tomasi, Mary A. Peterson, and Lynn Nadel (Eds.).
Cambridge: MIT Press.
Cantlon, J. F., Cordes, S., Libertus, M. E., & Brannon, E. M. (2009). Numerical
abstraction: It ain’t broke. (commentary). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32(3-4), 331-
332.
Cantlon, J.F., Cordes, S., Libertus, M.E., Brannon, E.M. (2009) Comment on “Log or
Linear? Distinct Intuitions of the Number Scale in Western and Amazonian Indigene
Cultures, Science, 323(5910), 38. PMCID: PMC3393850.
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Cantlon, J. F., Libertus, M.E., Pinel, P., Dehaene, S., Brannon, E.M., & Pelphrey, K.A.
(2009). The neural development of an abstract concept of number. Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience, 21(11), 2217-2229. PMCID: PMC2745480.
Cantlon, J.F., Platt, M.L., & Brannon, E.M. (2009). Beyond the number domain. Invited
review. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13(2), 83-91. PMCID: PMC2709421.
Cordes, S., & Brannon, E.M. (2009). Crossing the divide: Infants discriminate small from
large numerosities. Developmental Psychology, 45(6), 1583-1594. PMCID: PMC2906140.
Cordes, S., & Brannon, E.M. (2009). The relative salience of discrete and continuous
quantity in young infants. Developmental Science, 12(3), 453-463. PMCID: PMC2949063.
Jordan, K.E., & Brannon, E.M. (2009). A comparative approach to understanding human
numerical cognition. The Origins of Object Knowledge. Hood, B., & Santos, L. (Eds.).
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Libertus, M.E., & Brannon, E.M. (2009) Behavioral and neural basis of number sense in
infancy, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18(6), 346-351. PMCID:
PMC2857350.
Libertus, M., Brannon, E.M., Pelphrey, K. (2009). Developmental changes in
category-specific brain responses to numbers and letters in a working memory
task. NeuroImage, 44(4), 1404-1414. PMCID: PMC2659412.
Libertus, M., Pruitt, L., Woldorff, M., & Brannon, E.M. (2009). Induced alpha-band
oscillations reflect ratio-dependent number discrimination in the infant brain. Journal of
Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(12), 2398-2406. DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.21162.
MacLean, E. L., Prior, S. R., Platt, M. L., & Brannon, E. M. (2009). Primate location
preference in a double-tier cage: Parsing the effects of illumination and cage height.
Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 12(1), 73-81. PMCID: PMC3666575.
Merritt, D., Rugani, R., Brannon, E.M. (2009). Empty sets as part of the numerical
continuum: conceptual precursors to the zero concept in rhesus monkeys. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: General, 138(2), 258-269. PMCID: PMC2918401.
2008
Brannon, E.M., Libertus, M. Meck, W.H., & Woldorff, M. (2008). Electrophysiological
measures of time processing in infant and adult brains: Weber’s law holds. Journal of
Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(2), 193-203. PMCID: PMC3607948.
Cordes, S., & Brannon, E.M. (2008). The Difficulties of Representing Continuous Extent
in Infancy: Using Number Is Just Easier. Child Development, 79(2), 476-489. PMCID:
PMC2906149.
Cordes, S., & Brannon, E. M. (2008). Quantitative competencies in infancy. Invited
Annual Review, Developmental Science, 11(6), 803-808. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-
7687.2008.00770.x.
Jordan, K.E., Suanda, S., & Brannon, E.M. (2008) Intersensory redundancy increases the
precision of numerical discrimination in infancy. Cognition, 108(1), 210-221. PMCID:
PMC2768652.
Jordan, K.E., MacLean, E., & Brannon, E.M. (2008) Monkeys match and tally quantities
across senses, Cognition, 108(3), 617-625. PMCID: PMC3641156.
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MacLean, E., Merritt, D., & Brannon. E.M. (2008). Social complexity predicts transitive
reasoning in prosimian primates, Animal Behavior, 76(2), 479-486. PMCID:
PMC2598410.
Suanda, U., Tompson, W., Brannon, E.M. (2008). Changes in the ability to detect ordinal
numerical relationships between 9 and 11 months of age, Infancy, 13(4), 308-337. PMCID:
PMC2918911.
2007
Brannon E.M., Suanda, U., Libertus, K. (2007). Temporal discrimination increases in
precision over development and parallels the development of numerosity discrimination,
Developmental Science, 10(6), 770-777. PMCID: PMC2918408.
Cantlon, J.F., & Brannon, E.M. (2007). Basic math in monkeys and college students.
PLoS Biology, 5(12), e328. PMCID: PMC2140091.
Cantlon, J.F., & Brannon, E.M. (2007). Adding up the effects of cultural experience on
the brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11(1), 1-4.
Cantlon, J. F; Brannon, E. M. (2007). How Much Does Number Matter to a Monkey
(Macaca mulatta)?, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes.
33(1), 32-41.
Cantlon, J., Fink, R., & Brannon, E.M. (2007). Heterogeneity impairs numerical matching
but not numerical ordering in preschool children. Developmental Science, 10(4), 431-440.
Libertus, M.E. Woldorff, M.G., & Brannon E.M. (2007). Electrophysiological evidence
for notation independence in numerical processing, Behavioral and Brain Functions, 3(1).
PMCID: PMC1781950.
Merritt, D., MacLean, E., Jaffe, S., & Brannon, E.M. (2007). A comparative analysis of
serial ordering in ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta). Journal of Comparative Psychology,
121(4), 363-371. PMCID: PMC2953466.
Roitman, J., Brannon. E.M., & Platt, M.L. (2007). Monotonic Coding of Numerosity in
Macaque Lateral Intraparietal Area. PLoS Biology, 5(8): e208. PMCID: PMC1925133.
2006
Brannon, E.M., Lutz, D., and Cordes, S. (2006). The development of area discrimination
and its implications for number representation in infancy. Developmental Science, 9(6),
F59-F64. PMCID: PMC1661837.
Jordan, K., & Brannon, E.M. (2006). A common representational system governed by
Weber’s Law: nonverbal numerical similarity judgments in six-year-old children and
rhesus macaques. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 95(3), 215-229.
Jordan, K., & Brannon E.M. (2006). Weber’s Law influences numerical representations in
rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), Animal Cognition, 9(3), 159-172.
Brannon, E.M., Cantlon, J., & Terrace, H.S., (2006). The role of reference points in
ordinal numerical comparisons by rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32(2), 120-134.
Cantlon, J., & Brannon, E.M. (2006). Shared system for ordering small and large numbers
in monkeys and humans. Psychological Science, 17(5), 401-406.
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Cantlon, J., & Brannon, E.M., Carter, E.J., & Pelphrey, K. (2006). Functional imaging of
numerical processing in adults and 4-y-old children. PLOS Biology, 4(5), e125. PMCID:
PMC1431577.
Cantlon, J., & Brannon, E.M. (2006). The effect of heterogeneity on numerical ordering in
rhesus monkeys, Infancy, 9(2), 173-189.
Brannon, E.M. (2006). The representation of numerical magnitude. Invited review for
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 16(2), 222-229. PMCID: PMC1626588.
Jordan, K., & Brannon, E.M. (2006). The multisensory representation of number in
infancy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(9), 3486-3489. PMCID:
PMC1413880.
Le Corre, M., Van de Walle, G., Brannon, E.M., and Carey, S. (2006). Re-visiting the
Competence/Performance Debate in the Acquisition of Counting as a Representation of the
Positive Integers. Cognitive Psychology, 52(2), 130-169.
Roitman, J., Brannon, E.M., Andrews, J.R., & Platt, M.L. (2006). Nonverbal
representation of time and number in adults. Acta Psychologica, 124(3), 296-318.
2005
Brannon, E.M. (2005). The independence of language and mathematical reasoning.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(9), 3177-3178. PMCID:
PMC552939.
Brannon, E.M. (2005). What Animals Know About Numbers. In J.I.D. Campbell (Ed.),
Handbook of Mathematical Cognition (pp. 85-108). New York, NY: Psychology Press.
Brannon, E.M. (2005). Quantitative thinking: From monkey to human and human infant
to adult. In S. Dehaene, J.Duhamel, Hauser, M.D., Rizzolatti, G. (Eds.), From Monkey
Brain to Human Brain (pp.97-116). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Cantlon, J., & Brannon, E.M. (2005). Semantic congruity facilitates number judgments in
monkeys and humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(45), 16507–
16511. PMCID: PMC1283437.
Lewis, K. Jaffe, S., & Brannon, E.M. (2005). Analog number representations in mongoose
lemurs (Eulemur mongoz): evidence from a search task. Animal Cognition. 8(4), 247-251.
Jordan, K.E., Brannon, E.M., Logothetis, N.K., Ghazanfar, A.A. (2005). Monkeys match
the number of voices they hear to the number of faces they see. Current Biology 15(11),
1034-1038.
2004
Brannon, E.M., Wolfe, L., Meck, W.H., Woldorff, M. (2004). Timing in the baby brain.
Cognitive Brain Research, 21(2), 227-233.
Brannon, E.M., Abbott, S., & Lutz, D. (2004). Number bias for the discrimination of large
visual sets in infancy, Cognition, 93(2), B59-B68.
Brannon, E.M., Andrews, M., & Rosenblum, L. (2004). Effectiveness of video of
conspecifics as a reward for socially housed bonnet macaques (Macaca radiata).
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 98(3 Pt. 1), 849-858.
2003
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Brannon, E.M. (2003). Number knows no bounds. Invited commentary in Trends in
Cognitive Sciences, 7(7) 279-281.
Brannon, E.M., & Roitman, J. (2003). Nonverbal representations of time and number in
non-human animals and human infants. In Functional and Neural Mechanisms of Interval
Timing Ed., Warren Meck. New York, NY: CRC Press. Pp. 143-182.
Terrace, H.S., Son, L., & Brannon, E.M. (2003). Serial expertise of rhesus macaques.
Psychological Science, 14(1) 66-73.
1996-2002
Brannon, E.M., (2002). The development of ordinal numerical knowledge in infancy.
Cognition, 83(3), 223-240.
Brannon, E.M., & Van de Walle, G. (2001). The development of ordinal numerical
competence in young children. Cognitive Psychology, 43(1), 53-81.
Brannon, E.M., Wusthoff, C.J., Gallistel, C.R., & Gibbon, J. (2001). Numerical
subtraction in the pigeon: evidence for a linear subjective number scale. Psychological
Science, 12(3), 238-243.
Brannon, E.M., & Terrace, H.S. (2002). The Evolution and Ontogeny of Ordinal
Numerical Ability. In Bekoff, M., Allen, C., and Burghardt, G.M. The Cognitive Animal.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Pp. 197-204.
Gallistel, C.R., Brannon, E.M., Gibbon, J., & Wusthoff, C.J. (2001). Response to
Dehaene. Psychological Science, 12(3), 247.
Brannon, E.M., & Terrace, H.S. (2000). Representation of the numerosities 1-9 by Rhesus
Monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior
Processes, 26(1), 31-49.
Brannon, E.M., & Terrace, H.S. (1999). Letter to the editor. Science, 283, 1852.
Brannon, E.M., & Terrace, H.S. (1998). Ordering of the numerosities 1-9 by monkeys.
Science, 282(5389), 746-749.
Platt, M.L., Brannon, E.M., Briese, T.L. & French, J.A. (1996). Differences in feeding
ecology predict differences in performance between golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus
rosalia) and Wied’s marmosets (Callithrix kuhli) on spatial and visual memory tasks.
Animal Learning and Behavior, 24(4), 384-393.
Selected scientific Commentaries on Brannon Publications____________________
Selected press coverage can be viewed at www.brannonlab.org
Carey, S. (1998) Knowledge of number: it's evolution and ontology, Science, 282, 641-2.
Azar, B. (2000) Monkeying around with number, APA Monitor (31)1.
Dehaene, S. (2001). Subtracting pigeons: Logarithmic or linear? Psychological Science.
Vol 12(3), 244-246.
Bower, B. (2002). Numbers in Mind, Science News 161, 392-393.
Bower, B. (2005). Math Minus Grammer, Science News 167, 117-118.
Santos, L R. (2005). Primate Cognition: Putting Two and Two Together, Current Biology,
15 (1), R545-R547
Gross, L. (2006). A Neural Seat for Math? PLOS, Biology, 4(5)e149
Miller, J. (2006) Babies show budding number ability, Science News, 169.
Feigenson, L. (2007) Trends in Cognitive Science.
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Dingfelder, S.F. (2007) Monkey Math, APA monitor (38) 3.
Gross, L. (2007). Neurons for numerosity: As quantities increase, so does the neural
response. PLOS, Biology, 5(8)e226.
Van Opstal, F. (2007). Labeled-line coding and summation coding of numerosities in
prefrontal and parietal cortex. J. of Neuroscience. 27(36)9535-9536.
Beran MJ., (2008) The Evolutionary and Developmental Foundations of Mathematics.
PLoS Biol 6(2): e19 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060019
Top 100 scientific findings Discover Magazine 2013
Scientific Society Memberships
American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, Comparative Cognition
Society, Cognitive Development Society, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Eastern Psychological
Association, International Society for Infant Studies, Psychonomics Society, Society for Research
in Child Development, Society for Neuroscience, Vision Science Society
Department and University Service
Leaky Foundation DIBS Presentation 9/26/2014
Chair of developmental faculty search Spring 2015
CCN retreat committee 2014
Faculty co-chair for DIBS Career path workshop, Fall, 2014
Presenter for DIBS outreach event, Dallas, Texas, January 2014
Presenter for Duke Parents, March 2014
Chair of tenure committee, Dr. Michael Tomasello
Academic Programs Committee (Provost advisory committee) 2013-2016
Presenter for Duke Forward event, Washington DC, 2013
Executive committee for Initiative on Human Education and Development, 2013
Developmental Area head, 2011-
Chair of search committee for developmental psychology, 2011-2013
Director of Graduate Studies, Cognitive Neuroscience Admitting Program, 2008-2009,
2010-2016
Tenure review committee for Dr. Stephen Mitroff, 2011
Review committee for Dean of Engineering School, 2011-2012
Tenure review committee for Brian Hare, Evolutionary Anthropology, 2011
Third year review committee for Makeba Wilbourn, 2010-2011
Third year review committee for Amy Joh, 2010-2011
Member of P&N chair advisory committee 2008-2009, 2010-2012
Tenure review committee for Dr. Elizabeth Marsh, 2011
Director of Graduate Studies, P&N, 2008-2009
Third year review committee for Stephen Mitroff, 2008-2009
Member of search committee for chair of Evolutionary Anthropology 2008-2009
Member of steering committee for Primate Genomics Initiative 2008-2010
Member of Director’s Board Duke Lemur Center, 2006-2009
Faculty organizer of Developmental Brown Bag 2007-2009
Faculty organizer of Cognitive Development Brown Bag 2006-2007
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Research board for the Duke Primate Center (protocol review) 2004-2010
Member of search committee for cognitive development area, 2007-2008
Member of Bylaws committee for P&N Spring 2007-2008
Organizer for Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience Talk Series Spring 2007
Faculty Advisor for Student magazine “The Duke Mind,” 2007-2008
Member of search committee for cognitive primatology position, 2005-2006
Associate Director of Graduate Studies 2002-2005
Department ethics representative 2001-2005, 2007-2009, 2011-2013
Member of search committee for behavioral genetics position, 2004-2005
Internal Advisory Board for the Duke Primate Center 2002-2005
Member of search committee for Director of Center for Cognitive Neuroscience 2002
Teaching
Courses taught:
Educational Neuroscience Seminar Spring 2014
Bass seminar 2013-2014
Professional Development Course for graduate students (2010-2014)
Thought without Language seminar (Spring 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
Developmental Psychology lecture course (Fall 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2012)
Graduate seminar Nonverbal Cognition (Spring 2004)
Graduate seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience (Spring 2008)
Graduate seminar in Advanced Topics in Cognitive Development (Spring 2011, Fall 2012, Fall,
2014)
Team Teaching and Guest Lectures:
Evolution and Development Proseminar 2001-2006
Graduate course on Cognitive Neuroscience 2000-2013 (1-2 lectures each semester)
Undergraduate course on Cognitive Neuroscience
Guest lecture in Introduction to Visual Culture by Kristine Stiles, 2008 & 2011
Guest Lecture in Graduate Cognitive Development, UNC, Chapel Hill Spring 2009, 2012, 2014
Current graduate students: Nick Dewind, anticipated graduation December 2014
Ariel Starr (NSF), anticipated graduation May 2015
Carline Drucker (NSF) 2011-
Rosa Li (NSF) 2011-
Emily Szkudlarek 2014-
Past graduate students
Kerry Jordan, PhD, May 2007; associate professor Utah State University 2007-
Jessica Cantlon, PhD October 2007; assistant professor University of Rochester 2009-
Melissa Libertus, PhD, May 2010; assistant professor University of Pittsburg 2013-
David Paulsen, May 2012, Data Scientist
Sarah Jones, May 2012, currently visiting assistant Professor at St. Norbert College
Current postdoctoral students:
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Stephanie Bugden 2015-
Past Postdoctoral Students:
Kerrie Lewis 2002-2004; Associate Professor Texas State University 2006-
Donna Lutz 2003-2005; nonacademic job
Dustin Merritt 2006-2011; nonacademic job
Joonkoo Park 2011-2014, Assistant professor University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Michal Pinhas 2011-2013, Assistant professor, Ariel University
Jamie Roitman 2002-2006; Assistant Professor University of Illinois, Chicago
Sara Cordes 2005-2009; Assistant Professor, Boston College
Competitive Funding awarded to my students
NSF Graduate Fellowship, Kerry Jordan 2004-2007
APA American Psychological Association Dissertation award, Kerry Jordan 2006-2007
NSF Graduate Fellowship, Jessica Cantlon 2004-2007
NRSA Graduate Fellowship, David Paulsen 2010-2012
APA Elizabeth Koppitz Fellowship, Jessica Cantlon 2007-2008
NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sara Cordes 2006-2009
NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dustin Merritt 2009-2011
NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship, David Paulsen 2010-2013
Hitchings New Investigator Award, Melissa Libertus, 2006
STERN dissertation award, Melissa Libertus, 2009-2010
Broad Graduate Fellowship, Nick DeWind, 2011-2012
NSF Graduate Fellowship, Ariel Starr, 2012-2015
DIBS postdoctoral fellowship, Joonkoo Park 2012-2013
NSF Graduate Fellowship, Caroline Drucker, 2013-2016
NSF Graduate Fellowship, Rosa Li, 2013-2016
Graduate student dissertation committees (not including my own students):
Susan Ormsbee, PBS, defended PhD Spring 2003
Tracy Barrett, PBS, defended PhD April 2004
Michelle Merrill, Biological Anthropology, defended PhD April 2004
Aaron Sandler, Neurobiology Department, defended PhD 2006
Jose Larrauri, Psychology and Neuroscience, defended PhD, July 2008
Jen Gibbons, Psychology and Neuroscience, MAP committee 2009
Evan MacLean, Evolutionary Anthropology defended PhD 2012
Amrita Nair, Neurobiology defended 2013
Kait Clark, Psychology and Neuroscience, defended PhD, 2014
Amy Winecoff, Psychology and Neuroscience
Courtnea Rainey, Psychology and Neuroscience
Daniel Pages, Psychology and Neuroscience
Emma Wu Dowd, Psychology and Neuroscience
Christopher Krupenye, Evolutionary Anthropology
Kristin Johnson, Psychology and Neuroscience
Kelsey Lucca, Psychology and Neuroscience
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Undergraduate independent studies and practicums:
Evolutionary Anthropology (3) (Talia Baghdoyan with distinction in the major, 2014)
Biology (3)
Psychology (over 40 students since 2000, many with distinction in the major)
(Rachel Roberts, with distinction in the major 2014; Cayley Larimer, 2015)
Neuroscience (Crystal Chiang, Anchal Sabharwal, Marley Rossa with distinction in the major
2014; Sonia Godbole, Pawan Mathew, Erica Ortiz 2015)
Undergraduate students who coauthored publications as a result of independent study or work-
study collaborations Sara Abbott, Whitney Tompson, Laura Pruitt, Lauren Wolfe, Rebecca Fink,
Kelley E. Safford, Tara Mandalwaya, Jeremy Crawford, Priya Patel, Crystal Chiang, Rachel
Roberts, Vanessa Bermudez, Talia Baghdoyan
Mentor for Mechanisms of Behavior NSF summer students (2000-2010)
Mentor for Howard Hughes Summer Undergraduate Students (2000-2004, 2006)
Mentor for Howard Hughes High School interns (3 students 2003-2004, 2006, 2007)
Mentor for Vertical Integration Program (2 students, 2006; 4 students, 2007; 1 student, 2008)
Mentor for high school students from North Carolina School of Science and Math 2008-2009,
2013-2014, 2014-2015
Conference Talks and Posters
2014
Park J, DeWind N, Woldorff MG, Brannon E.M. Abstraction of number concepts from
visual percepts in the human brain. Mathematical Cognition Conference. 2014. Arlington,
VA.
Park J, DeWind N, Woldorff MG, Brannon E.M. Abstraction of number concepts from
visual percepts in the human brain. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2014. Boston, MA.
Starr, A., DeWind, N.K., & Brannon, E.M. (2014, September). The role of non-numerical
stimulus features in the development of the number sense. Poster to be presented at the
annual meeting of Flux, The International Congress for Integrative Developmental Cognitive
Neuroscience. Los Angeles, CA.
Starr, A. & Brannon, E.M. (2014, July). Infants simultaneously encode numerical and
temporal information. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the International
Conference for Infant Studies. Berlin, Germany.
2013
Drucker, C.B., Brannon, E.M., & Platt, M. L. Transcranial magnetic stimulation of
macaque intraparietal sulcus impairs numerical processing. Society for Neuroscience Annual
Meeting, San Diego.
Starr, A., & Brannon E.M. (2013, October). Shared and separable representations of
magnitude in 4-year-old children. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Cognitive
Development Society. Memphis, TN.
Starr, A., Libertus, M.E., & Brannon, E.M. (2013, May). ANS acuity in infancy predicts
ANS acuity in early childhood. Poster presented at the Math Cognition Conference.
Bethesda, MD.
Starr, A., Libertus, M.E., & Brannon, E.M. (2013, April). Infants show ratio-dependent
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discrimination regardless of set size. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society
for Research in Child Development. Seattle, WA.
Starr, A., Libertus, M.E., & Brannon, E.M. (2013, April). ANS acuity in infancy predicts
ANS acuity in early childhood. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for
Research in Child Development. Seattle, WA.
2012
Pinhas, M., Paulsen, D. J., & Brannon, E. M. (October, 2012). Individual differences in
preschoolers’ numerical acuity modulate event-related potential ratio effects. Paper presented
at the 42nd annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, USA.
Pinhas, M., Donohue, S. H., Woldorff, M. G., & Brannon, E. M. (April, 2012)
Electrophysiological recordings of brain activity in preschoolers reveals the conceptual
processing of spoken number words. Poster presented at the 19th annual meeting of the
Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago, USA.
Starr, A., Libertus, M.E., & Brannon, E.M. (2012, June). Small number discrimination in
infancy: a case for approximate number representations. Poster presented at the biennial
meeting of the International Society for Infant Studies. Minneapolis, MN.
Starr, A., & Brannon, E.M. (2012, June). Sound-shape congruency in preverbal infants.
Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for Infant Studies.
Minneapolis, MN.
2011
Brannon, E. M., Pinhas, M., Starr, A., & Libertus, M. (October, 2011). Relationship
between early and later developing numerical abilities. Annual principal investigators
meeting of the Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE)
program, National Science Foundation, Washington, USA
Jones, S., & Brannon, E.M. Conference on Comparative Cognition
Cordes, S., & Brannon, E.M. 8-Month Olds Know Words Refer to Number: Verbal Labels
Enhance Large Number Discrimination in Preverbal Infants, SRCD, Montreal
Paulsen, D.J., Carter, M., Platt, M.L., Huettel, S.A., &. Brannon, E.M. Risky Decision
Making and Development: Behavioral Trajectories and Neural Recruitment From Early
Childhood to Adulthood, SRCD, Montreal
Paulsen, D.J., Carter, M., Platt, M.L., Huettel, S.A., & Brannon, E.M. Risky Decision
Making and Development: Behavioral Trajectories and Neural Recruitment From Early
Childhood to Adulthood, Cognitive Neuroscience Society
2010
Libertus, M., Brannon, E.M., & Woldorff, M. (2010). Time course of stimulus-driven
oscillatory synchronization and adaptation to numerical changes. Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), Montreal, Canada.
Libertus, M., & Brannon, E.M. (2010). Developmental trajectory of the relationship
between numerical discrimination and other cognitive abilities in infancy. 17th Biennial
International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS), Baltimore.
Paulsen, D., Carter, M., Huettel, S., Platt, M., & Brannon, E. (2010). Risky decision making
in young children activates prefrontal and posterior parietal regions, Cognitive Neuroscience
Society, Montreal, QB
Paulsen, D., Carter, M., Huettel, S., Platt, M., Brannon, E. (2010). Risky decision making
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and development: neural recruitment from childhood to adulthood, Society for
Neuroeconomics, Evanston, IL.
Paulsen, D., Carter, M., Platt, M., Huettel, S., Brannon, E. (2010). Risky decision making
and development: neural recruitment from childhood to adulthood. Society for Neuroscience,
San Diego, CA.
2009
Cantlon, J. F., & Brannon, E. M. (2009). The evolution of numerical cognition: Evidence
from non- human primates. AAAS Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Cordes, S., Platt, M., & Brannon, E. M. (2009). Hot handed kids and gambling adults:
Strategy reversal in risky decision making from childhood to adulthood. Society for
Research in Child Development, Denver, Co.
DeWind N.D., Brannon E.M., & Platt M.L. (2009). November. Neural encoding of
numerosity in the ventral intraparietal area in numerically naïve rhesus monkeys. Society for
Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
Jones, S. M., Cantlon, J. F., & Brannon, E. M. (2009). Numerical sensitivity of lemurs.
International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.
Libertus, M., & Brannon, E. M. (2009). Evidence for Weber’s Law in infants’ numerical
discriminations from a new change detection paradigm. Society for Research in Child
Development, Denver, CO.
Libertus, M., Brannon, E. M., & Woldorff, M. (2009). Stimulus-driven oscillatory responses
to numerical changes: a novel frequency-tagging EEG paradigm. Cognitive Neuroscience
Society, San Francisco, CA.
Merritt, D. J., Casasanto, D., & Brannon, E. M. (2009). Do monkeys use space to think
about time? Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.
Merritt, D. J., Casasanto, D., & Brannon, E. M. (2009). The effects of space on time
judgments in rhesus monkeys and humans. Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.
Paulsen, D., Carter, M., Huettel, S., Platt, M., & Brannon, E. M. (2009). Heterogeneity in
risky decision making in 6- to 7-year-old children. Society for Research in Child
Development, Denver, CO.
Paulsen, D., Carter, M., Huettel, S., Platt, M., Brannon, E. (2009). Neurometrics of risky
decision making in 6- to -7-year-old children, Society for Neuroeconomics, Evanston, IL.
2008
Cantlon, J. F., & Brannon, E. M. (2008). Basic math in monkeys. Society for Neuroscience,
Washington, D.C.
Cantlon, J. F., Brannon, E. M., & Pelphrey, K. A. (2008). Cortical organization of visual
categories in preschool (2008). Cortical organization of visual categories in preschool
children. Concepts, Objects, and Actions Meeting, Rovereto, Italy.
Cordes, S., Suanda, S., & Brannon, E. M. (2008). Developmental limitations on numerical
ordinal abilities. International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, BC.
Libertus, M., Brannon, E. M., & Pelphrey, K. (2008). Working memory for numbers,
letters, and faces in 8-year-old children and adults. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San
Francisco, CA.
Paulsen, D., Huettel, S., Platt, M., & Brannon, E. M. (2008). Heterogeneity in risky decision
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making in 6- to 7-year-old children. Society for Neuroeconomics, Park City, UT.
Paulsen, D., Woldorff, M., & Brannon, E. M. (2008). Event-related potential signatures of
detecting numerical difference. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.
2007
MacLean, E. L., Merritt, D. J., & Brannon, E. M. (2007). Transitive inference in two
species of prosimian primates [Abstract]. American Journal of Primatology, 69(S1), 102.
Merritt, D. J., MacLean, E. L., & Brannon, E. M. (2007). Serial order processing in ring-
tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) [Abstract]. American Journal of Primatology, 69(S1), 101.
Cantlon, J.F., Libertus, M.E., Brannon, E.M., & Pelphrey, K.A. Symbolic & Non-
symbolic Number in the Developing Brain. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York,
May 2007.
Cordes, S., Lutz, D., & Brannon, E. M. Discriminations of Small from Large Sets in
Human Infants. Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, March 2007.
Jordan, K., & Brannon, E.M. Developmental changes in numerical matching performance
across stimulus format and modality. Society for Research in Child Development, Boston,
March 2007.
Libertus, M. E., Libertus, K., Suanda, S. H., Woldorff, M. G., Meck, W., & Brannon, E.
M. Behavioral and Neurophysiological Correlates of Interval Timing in Human Infants
Follow Weber's Law. Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, March 2007.
Libertus, M. W., Pruitt, L. B., Woldorff, M. G., Brannon, E. M. Electrophysiological
markers of number processing in 7-month-old infants. Cognitive Neuroscience Society,
New York, May 2007.
MacLean, E. L., Merritt, D. J., & Brannon, E. M. Learning to learn and transitivity in
prosimians. Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, March 2007.
Suanda, S.H., & Brannon, E.M. Ordinal numerical knowledge in infancy: What develops
between 9 and 11 months? Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, March
2007.
2006
Roitman, J., Brannon, E.M., Platt, M.L. Representation of numerical magnitude in
posterior parietal cortex. Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, October 2006
Brannon, E.M. et al., Comparative and developmental approach to studying nonverbal
numerical cognition. Psychonomics, Houston, 2006
Jordan, K.E., & Brannon, E.M. Infants’ multisensory representation of number.
International Society for Infant Studies, June 2006
Jordan, K.E., & Brannon, E.M. Monkeys match sequentially presented sets with
simultaneously presented arrays based on numerosity. Vision Science Society, May 2006
Cantlon J.F., & Brannon, E.M. Numerical processing of visual arrays in the brains of
adults and four-year-old children. Vision Science Society, May 2006.
Roitman, J., Brannon, E.M., Platt, M.L. Representation of numerical magnitude in
posterior parietal cortex. Vision Science Society, May 2006
Cantlon J.F., Brannon, E.M., Pelphrey, K. Notation-Independent Number Processing in
Adults and Four-year-old Children. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 2006.
Brannon, E.M.
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Libertus, M. Woldorff, M., Brannon, E.M. Electrophysiological Correlates of Number
Comparisons. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 2006
2005
Libertus, K., Libertus, M.E., Meck, W.H., Woldorff, M., Brannon, E.M. Behavioral and
neurophysiological correlates of time processing in human infants. Society for
Neuroscience, Washington DC 2005
Jordan, K.E., & Brannon, E.M. Infants match numerosities across the visual and auditory
modalities. Cognitive Development Society, San Diego, October 2005
Brannon, E.M., Libertus, M., Meck, W.H., & Woldorff, M. Neurophysiological correlates
of time processing are modulated by interval differences in human infants and adults.
Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2005
Jordan, K.E., & Brannon, E.M. Monkeys Match the Number of Voices They Hear to the
Number of Faces They See. Vision Science Society, Sarasota, May 2005
Cantlon J.F., & Brannon, E.M. Relative Salience of Number, Shape, Color, and Surface
Area in Rhesus Monkeys. Vision Science Society, May 2005
Cantlon, J.F., Fink, R., & Brannon, E.M. The effect of heterogeneity on numerical
judgments in monkeys and young children. SRCD 2005
Roitman J.D., Brannon E.M., & Platt M.L. 2005. Implicit discrimination of visual arrays
by number in rhesus macaques. Journal of Vision 5(8), 1044.
Jordan, K.E., Fink, R., & Brannon, E.M. Nonverbal Number Representation in Monkeys
and Children: A Number Bisection Task. SRCD, Atlanta, April 2005
Lutz, D., & Brannon, E.M. SRCD 2005
2004
Roitman, J. Brannon, E.M., Andrews, J.R., & Platt, M.L. 2004. Nonverbal analog
encoding of time and number in adult humans. Soc Neurosci Abst 30. 176.16.
Jordan, K.E. & Brannon, E.M. 2004. Cardinal Number Representation in Rhesus
Macaques. Poster presented at the annual Comparative Cognition Conference, Indialantic,
FL.
Lewis K., & Brannon, E.M. 2004. Quantitative and learning capacities of lemurs. Poster
presented at the annual Comparative Cognition Conference, Indialantic, FL.
Cantlon, J., Lewis, K., & Brannon, E. M. 2004. Monkeys count up and down: Conditional
numerical ordering in rhesus macaques. Comparative Cognition Conference, Melbourne
Beach, Florida.
Jordan, K.E. and Brannon, E.M. 2004. Rhesus Macaques’ Performance on a Number
Bisection Task. Proceedings and Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Eastern
Psychological Association, 75, 45.
2003
Jordan, K.E. and Brannon, E.M. 2003. Cardinal Number Representation in Rhesus
Monkeys. Poster presented at the North Carolina Cognition Group.
Roitman J.D., Andrews J.A., Brannon E.M., & Platt M.L. 2003. Time and number
discrimination in the monkey and humans. Soc Neurosci Abstr 29: 180:11.
Brannon, E.M., Gautier, T. Number and Continuous Stimulus Dimensions. 2003 SRCD
Brannon, E.M.
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Brannon, E.M., Numerical thinking: A comparative study, Presidential symposium
Eastern Psychological Association, 2003.
Brannon, E.M., 2003. Development of serial ordering in infants, OECD. Brockton, MA.
2002
Brannon, E.M., Wolfe, L., Meck, W.H., Woldorff, M. 2002. Electrophysiological
correlates of timing in human infants. Society for Neuroscience, Orlando, FA.
Brannon, E.M., 2002. The development of ordinal numerical knowledge in infancy.
Symposium, at International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto.
Brannon, E.M., 2002 The development of ordinal numerical knowledge in infancy. North
Carolina Conference on Cognition.
1999-2001
Brannon, E.M., 2001. Ordinal numerical representations in human infants: A comparative
perspective. Abstracts of Psychonomic Society, 6, 42.
Kovary, I., Brannon, E.M., & Terrace, H.S. 2000. Further investigations of number
representations in rhesus monkeys. International Conference on Comparative Cognition.
Brannon, E.M., & Van de Walle, G. 1999. Knowledge of numerical ordinal relations in
2- to 3- year olds. Poster presented at Society on Research in Child Development, New
Mexico.
Brannon, E. M., Freidin, L., & Terrace, H. S. 1999. A comparison of the psychophysical
functions relating latency and accuracy to numerical distance in rhesus monkeys and
human subjects. Proceedings and Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Eastern
Psychological Association.
1996-1998
Brannon, E.M., & Terrace, H.S. 1998. A comparison of cardinal and ordinal numerical
abilities in rhesus monkeys. Abstracts of Psychonomic Society, 3, 39.
Brannon, E.M., & Terrace, H.S. 1998. Rhesus monkeys transfer an ordinal rule to novel
numerosities. International Conference on Comparative Cognition.
Brannon, E. M., Anderson, E., A, Chen, S., & Terrace, H. S. 1998. Monkeys
spontaneously discriminate numerosities 5-9 after training on 1-4. Proceedings and
Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, 69, 84.
Anderson, E.A., Brannon, E. M., Chen, S., & Terrace, H. S. 1998. Recall of
arbitrary lists by rhesus macaques. Proceedings and Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the
Eastern Psychological Association, 69, 11.
Brannon, E.M., Anderson, E.A., Chen, S., & Terrace, H.S. 1997. Judgments of relative
numerosity in rhesus macaques. Abstracts of Psychonomic Society, 2, 38.
Brannon, E. M., Anderson, E.A., Chen, S., & Terrace, H.S. 1997. Inferences based on
quantity by rhesus macaques. Proceedings and Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the
Eastern Psychological Association, 68, 51.
Terrace, H.S., Jaswal, V., Brannon, E.M., & Chen, S. 1996 What is a chunk? Ask a
monkey. Abstracts of Psychonomic Society, 1, 35.
